Posted on 08/17/2006 3:30:58 AM PDT by rdb3
BY BENNY AVNI - Staff Reporter of the Sun
August 17, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/38095
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UNITED NATIONS — As all sides prepare for Lebanese and international troops to replace the Israeli army in Lebanon in as early as 10 days, officials in Europe, America, and Lebanon have made clear that the resolve to confront and disarm Hezbollah in the aftermath of the war is fast eroding.
After meeting Secretary-General Annan yesterday, Israel's foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, hailed the security council resolution that ended the fighting Monday morning, calling it a beginning of a "process" in which "the international community" is expected to end the presence of Hezbollah as an armed force.
Israel has to be convinced, she said, that provisions such as an embargo by the Lebanese army and the multinational force to prevent the rearming of Hezbollah are implemented. The United Nations, however, demands that the current Israeli-imposed blockade is removed even before such a mechanism is in place.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)
Stopping this fight before one side or the other wins is prolonging the death and suffering. That seems immoral.
Among the great oxymorons: UN Peacekeepers.
We are witnessing the birth of a major crisis in the middle East. If Ohlmert's government falls in the midst of the troubles with Lebanon, Syria, Hezbollah, Iran, and all of the other players in this drama, the Islamofacists will see it as an open opportunity to finish the job against an Israel that will be weaker than the one that just agreed to a cease-fire that was dead before the printer's ink was dry on the basic agreement - much less the signatures of the combatant parties.
Everyone involved EXCEPT the Israelis are backing away from this horrid US and France sponsored disaster in the making. The French have already surrendered, and they don't have any UN troops deployed yet!! They have stated that if Hezbollah isn't disarmed (per the agreement), they will not send troops - troops who are currently not scheduled to arrive in theater for up to a year (it takes time to teach that many military folks the proper techniques for waving white flags in Arabic).
Part II of this war will be much more destructive and kill many more innocents people that the just concluded Part I.
so r we gonna see hezzies remain armed, and the same old same old, including NO enforced arms embargo??
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)
What a waste of time, nothing has been accomplished other than to give boldness to terrorists. Hezbollah will now be rearmed and once again Israel will have to defend themselves. Amen.
"Part II of this war will be much more destructive and kill many more innocents people that the just concluded Part I."
What was the logic in substituting U.N. and foreign troops for Israeli troops? Do they think Hezbollah will roll over and play dead if Lebanon is occupied by blue helmets instead of green helmets?
This is going to get ugly.
Let's remind them about history:
"The Past is Prologue" [Michael Ledeen]
This excellent essay comes courtesy of pajamasmedia. I guess it's easier to see the big picture from Brazil than in the corridors of power...
The Past is Prologue
In this essay, exclusive to PJM, Nelson Ascher observes, We are spending precious time getting surprised or scared, wondering about the hatred itself, its depth and extension. That’s important, but not what’s most important right now. What we need to understand is that this hatred is being once again used cynically to obtain certain results.
We all have spent too much time talking about the widespread anti-Semitism in the Muslim world and discovering, to our surprise, that many in the West actually share this feeling, while many more couldn’t really care less. This is a mistaken approach.
Instead of trying to understand "why they hate us" and why they (and many others) hate the Jews (something I hope we’ll be discussing for several generations), what we have to understand right now is: what is anti-Semitism good for? What are the uses of anti-Semitism?
Whether those who manipulate anti-Semitism are themselves anti-Semites (or anti-Zionists or whatever), whether they personally share the hatred, all that is irrelevant right now. The historical roots of the hatred, its psychology and so on are not questions we have the time to analyse, dissect, discuss endlessly nowadays. (And we’re still debating the Holocaust, how and why it happened etc., 62 years after the end of WW2, without having reac hed anything resembling consensual answers.)
We are spending precious time getting surprised or scared, wondering about the hatred itself, its depth and extension. That’s important, but not what’s most important right now. What we need to understand is that this hatred is being once again used cynically to obtain certain results.
Besides being anti-Semitic themselves, the Nazis used anti-Semitism brilliantly to subvert other countries and societies. Though Nazism was (among other things) a form of German expansionism, wherever there were anti-Semites the Germans would also find collaborators. Anti-Semitism was used by the Germans to undermine from the inside countries, societies and armies that could or would stand up to them.
The Nazis managed to convince millions and millions of Frenchmen and Poles, Belgians, Norwegians etc. and, yes, Brits and Americans that, since they were fighting a common enemy, the Jews, they weren’t really the mortal enemies of France and Poland and Belgium and Norway and England and the US. Untold millions were eager to believe that Germany wasn’t really threatening them and their countries, that the Germans didn’t really want to conquer, exploit and kill them. Why? Because they either thought that they could make a common cause with the Nazis against the Jews, or remained indifferent, neutral and defenseless because, being indifferent to the fate of the Jews, they believed it was none of their problem. Many of them even turned against those in their own countries who wanted to fight the Nazis and blamed them for putting everyone else in danger just to "protect the Jews".
In short: if the Jews were used in the beginning as scapegoats, their main use throughout the war was as a tool to "divide and conquer". Thanks to their sincere or opportunistic ant-Semitism the Germans were able to paralyse important forces in the countries and societies they wanted to defeat and submit.
That’s jus t what is happening once again before our very eyes. Though the Jihadists have their own clear, even megalomaniac goals, and while they kill thousands in the US or fight for Shari’a in Europe, while they complain about East Timor or fight for Kashmir, it is enough for them to involve the Jews, particularly Israel, in their struggle or their declared agenda to get the active support or at least the indifference of those in Europe, the US and elsewhere who would like to believe that their complaints, grievances and goals are restricted to or only motivated by Israel. Of course, they also declare they’re fighting against America, but then, for those who hate America anyway (and often the Jews and/or Israel too), the same logic works perfectly.
The Jihadists have shown us how brilliantly they can manipulate for their own purposes something as irrelevant as half-a-dozen cartoons in a Danish newspaper. Thus, it is rather unimportant whether Israel’s destruction is or isn’t their main goal (it isn’t). They seem to have discovered through trial and error that the hatred of Jews is alive and well in the West and, as the Nazis did before, they are using it not only to further their own different goals, but to recruit collaborators and to paralyze whole countries and societies as well. It goes without saying how terrible this is for the Jews themselves, but it is at least as dangerous to the rest of the West that is allowing anti-Semitism to be used against itself. Hatred of the Jews and of Israel is the loaded weapon the Jihadis are putting in the hands of a civilization that’s willing (again) to commit suicide.
Nelson Ascher is a journalist, essayist and poet who works for Globo News in Sao Paulo.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
How soon before it begins again?
How soon they forget............
As if we needed more proof that the UN is worthless.
Wait until Iran rebuilds it, and then level it again.
Resolve? We are talking about the UN here............the only thing they could be resolute about is how to steal more money.
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